Be Careful Whom You Hear

I Samuel 26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed All of us carry a thousand voices with us everywhere we go. There...

Taking God on His Own Terms

I Samuel 24:4 …do to him as it shall seem good unto thee Back in October some of us were at the Covered Bridge Festival in Indiana. It is a multi-day, multi-city, county-wide festival where trailers sell hot chocolate, chili, leather goods, and so on. My wife and I...

Wisdom Is a Behavior

I Samuel 18:5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants In I Samuel 18 we read the story of Saul and...

Find Your Cause

I Samuel 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause Have you ever dreamed of killing giants, of being the hero, of doing some grand thing in life? David was a man who defeated the giant Goliath. David was only a youth, while Goliath was a warrior...

An Inside Job

I Samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears All of us face battles and struggles on a fairly regular basis, but sometimes it feels like we are being sabotaged from...